>> thank you, everyone! [ cheering and applause ] >> what hiving day for him. dr. schroeder has been -- a moving day for him. dr. schroeder has been serving in a military hospital in afghanistan since july. the news keeps coming tonight. brian bolter now with the news edge at 11:00. following breaking news tonight out of the district, an amber alert has just been issued for two missing children. fox 5's roz plater following the very latest breaking details. >> reporter: police are considering this a critical case, an emergency they are telling us now. there was an abduction here in the 2300 block of 15th street northeast at the children's home about 6:00 tonight. this is what police are telling me happened, that the father took these two children, a 9- month-old girl by the name of tiara and a 2-year-old little boy by the name of robert iii at gunpoint. it's also believed we're told the father was wearing a bulletproof vest. he is believed to be traveling in a car that is a gray four door lincoln 2001 with a

virginia license plate xfp2636. i'll repeat that again, virginia tag xfp2636. that's the car he is believed to be driving, unclear which direction he has taken off in, but again police believe he is armed. they set up an emergency command center here to try and track down any information they can about these kids and at this point in time putting that alert out to get tips and have some direction in which to go, but they believe he is armed. they are not asking people to approach him, but if you see the car or spot him or those children, they are asking you give them a call. an amber alert here, emergency abduction two very young children believed to be in the custody of their father who police say is armed. >> my description on robert anderson? >> reporter: he is as we're told a black male about 5' 8 to 5 taney, brown eyes, black

hair, believed to be about 22 years old or so and driving again this car. i'll give that real quickly, the gray four door lincoln 2001 vehicle virginia tag license plate xfp2636. >> hopefully this helps. let's get you to a story you'll only see on fox 5. leashing more about the woman accused in -- we're learning more about the woman accused in a brutal killing. jayna murray was found dead inside the lululemon store in bethesda nearly two weeks ago. her co-worker brittany norwood is charged in the murder. tonight one of brittany's college friends agreed to talk to fox 5, wisdom martin with the edge exclusive. >> long before she came to work in this area norwood was a great college soccer player, but one of her teammates says she had a dangerous side, too. tonight we spoke with her by phone. leanna yuss was brittany norwood's college teammate and friend in new york.

>> we hit it off right away. she was really funny, really outgoing. >> they played together from 2001 through 2003. leanna said norwood was an exceptional soccer player. in fact, she was the first player in school history to win all conference honors. >> pretty much the best female defender i've ever seen. >> she said norwood was a talented and aggressive defender on the field but very troubled off the field. >> she'd be like sweet and funny one minute and then weird the next. >> she said especially when they went out together and things started coming up missing. >> then sometimes they would take cash out of the wallet and i never caught her red handed. i think i caught her right after she did it and i asked for my money back, but i never said, you know, i never got mad at her because she was so intimidating. >> she said she never got the money back. then there were things missing in the locker room. norwood was accused but no one ever caught her in the act. yuss says the coach and athletic director knew of the

allegations. >> our coach made her apologize to me personally and we didn't really get into it. i was so nervous and scared and the whole time i still loved the girl like a sister. >> but without actual proof she says nothing was ever done. a lot of frustration yu -- through out of frustration yuss said she left the team after her junior year. >> i wanted to turn her into the police even though i was scared. i wanted to and my dad advised me not to. he's like who knows what this girl is capable of, you know. she could come back and kill you. >> now when norwood was arrested and charged with killing her co-worker, yesterday she immediately thought about her interaction with her former friend. >> if we go down the path there are consequences with all this going on in the locker room, everybody knew about it, how come she wasn't kicked off the team? >> there are a couple things, two things, there was never any proof she stole anything from the locker room, so there was never any charge and the second thing in this is after she

apologized to the team yuss said they had a chance to vote her off the team. but they kept her on and yuss left the team. another question you might ask yourself, what could lead someone to commit such a violent crime? joining us is forensic psychologist lisa van susteren. thank you for joining us. the degree of this violence we know the victim was hit in the head with a hammer more times than the coroner could count. it's been reported her spinal column was severed, her throat shashed allegedly by a woman. what -- slashed allegedly by a woman. what gets someone to that level? >> hard to say in this particular case. we don't know a lot about her history and indeed she has not pled guilty, although she has said that she could not say why she had done this, so implied, of course, that she is admitting it, but until we have real specific knowledge about many experiences growing up it's hard to profile her specifically. however, what we do know is

that she has long had troubles getting along with other people apparently on and off and that she had a a change in jobs and that there was spec -- had a change in jobs and that there was speculation she was stealing before. was she a ticking time bomb? it's clear if indeed she committed this murder that she was a ticking time bomb. it's hard from a human perspective to understand something like this. we do know that scientists can talk about it, however. >> we always hear this just snapped diagnosis. is that possible at this level of rage to just snap? >> well, what we see is just snapped, but if you would talk to experts who are versed in the neurobiology of violence, they will say that this has been brewing for a long time, that the moral circuitry that keeps us from acting out violently is defective in people who have a pattern of aggression or at least it's

correlated with that. for example, they have a diminished fear response. so whereas we growing up avoid doing bad things as we'll get in trouble, they will have a diminished response to that. whereas we will look at emotions that we have will be angry and sometimes have murderous rage, we don't act upon it because we have emotional control. people who are violent have less control or less regulation and third of all as we get older and leave our childhood, we recognize the compassion and em pathic element. we do the right thing just out of being decent human beings. we see in violence and people who act out aggressively these systems are altered, defective with correlation with violence. i can't say that's the case with her, but i wouldn't rule it out. >> we'll have to see if they do a mental evaluation. they haven't yet. dr. lisa van u.s. is earn, thank you. a -- van u.s. is earn, thank you.

a -- van sustern. a possible motive in this murder. 81-year-old nazir ahmed was robbed last week. today prosecutors say there were 40 bucks missing from his wallet. rohan goodlett is accused of killing a 41-year-old man as he was walking home from work. the edge on virginia where a search was continued in loudoun county for 21-year-old bethany anne decker who was last seen in january. today officers were combing an area off the loudoun county parkway near the greenway toll road in ashburn. hasn't been in activity on decker's cell phone, bank accounts or e-mail since she vanished. another suv raising big questions at d.c. city hall tonight. we know the city didn't pay for this luxury ride. that's the good news. who did and is it all on the up and up?

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keep you updated on the breaking news, here in the district an amber alert has been issued for two missing children, robert anthony anderson who is 2 years old, tiara anderson 10 months old. it's believe both have been abducted by their father robert anthony anderson driving a gray four door lincoln with virginia tag xfp2636 described as a black male about 22 years old, 5' 8 to 5 taney, 155 pounds, brown hair and eye -- 10 -- 5' 10, 155 pounds, brown hair and eyes. he is armed and believed to be wearing a bulletproof vest. the news edge staying in the district now, another suv scandal rocking the city hall. this time an suv driven by ward

5 councilman harry thomas is being called into question. it's not owned or leased by the district, but there are questions about where the money came from to pay for it. fox 5's matt ackland has the story. >> reporter: we found the car in question parked in front of the wilson building. it's an audi q7 4.2. when it was new, it had a base price of over $50,000. >> my car that i paid for myself, absolutely i'll talk to you about it. >> reporter: council member harry thomas said there is no funny business here. he bought the car with money from a business he owned. it was all money he earned. >> i had a business prior to coming to the council. that vehicle had been registered and changed the registration to the ownership of myself because it was my vehicle. >> reporter: but the d.c. republican committee asked the office of campaign finance to look into if that vehicle transaction was legal. >> look, this is all self- inflicted. >> reporter: paul craney executive director for the d.c. republican committee believes the company thomas used to buy

the vehicle also took in campaign dollars and when the audi was transferred to thomas, thomas did not document it. >> as audi, he just failed to report that. that's a big gift from his company to himself and all the council members are required to report outside income. >> reporter: thomas claims this latest investigation is politically motivate bid d.c. republicans. he says -- motivated by d.c. republicans. he says his audi is perfectly legal. >> they have had candidates who are quite frankly subpar and the only way they can create any credibility is try to discredit others who have done good service for the city. >> reporter: so two investigations remain open tonight, one by the committee on campaign finance, the other by d.c.'s attorney general. no word tonight how long these investigations will last, but council member thomas said he'd like to get past this as soon as possible. in the newsroom matt ackland, fox 5 news. aaa helping drivers track the cheapest gas prices on the

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$90 for an overweight bag on u.s. airways, good reminder to read the fine print when booking a ticket. no. 1, we are paying about 80 cents more for a gallon of gas this year compared to the same time last year. now there is a free iphone app to help you find the best deals. the aaa trip tick mobile app will show you upgraded prices for all grades of gas, hotels, restaurants and attractions near your location. that is tonight's fox 5 top five. the only way i can relate to this weather is by keeping something relatable. we kicked off the electric mattress pad the last couple of nights. time to kick it back on. >> solution every absolutely. you'll neat it, the heat seater car -- need it, the heat seater car thing in the morning. we were in the 70s last week. got to love march, it's all over the place, but the cold air now was brought in by

yesterday's storms. we did not have a tornado here, but this were tornadoes that touched down. this is still a picture from the tornado in greensburg. this is a little east of pittsburgh and boy, real shocking pictures. if you haven't heard the audio from the guy that was watching this thing, you've got to listen to it sometime, but the pictures are pretty spectacular. it was one of five tornadoes. there were about 360 reports of severe weather yesterday, primarily hail and also a lot of high wind. two or three tornadoes in pittsburgh, that one did some damage taking the roofs off about 20 to 30 homes up there in the greensburg area. meanwhile we're still at 39 degrees in the district. the storms brought in the colder air, gaithersburg 34, baltimore there as well, dulles 36. once the clouds break up, which they will in the next several hours, we'll see the temperatures drop to the 20s, 26 germantown, 29 columbia and 28 for chantilly. overnight the district dropped to about 31 degrees.

you don't want to get too enthusiastic and plant. you want to wait through most of april because we can still get cold nights and are for sure tonight is one of them. 33 degrees in the morning, by noon about 43 and by 5:00 46 and considerably on the chilly side, especially as we start the morning on out. so you've probably heard about this. we talked about this at 10:00. could there be snow on the cherry blossoms this weekend? right now the models continue to point in that direction. the timing would be late saturday night into sunday. it looks like temperatures will still be near 40 sunday. so this shouldn't be a huge problem on the road, but it could stick to the grass and the trees a little bit and a light accumulation is possible, maybe an inch or 2, outside shot at something a little higher, but we don't think so. stay tuned to the forecast because this is a bit of lifing target, this band of snow. maybe -- moving target, this band of snow. maybe it's possible the bulk of it is to our south. we average 1.6 inches of snow

in march at reagan. the last time we had measurable snow was 2009. it's going to be staying chilly, not cold enough to keep the snow sticking if we get it, but into the 40s, sunday in particular only about 41 degrees, but at least tomorrow is going to be nice and bright. quick look at futurecast so you can see some of that snow coming in. again this is going to be late saturday and into you'll begin to see it as it works its way toward us in the morning and for the most part it's gone by about 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon on sunday. here's your five-day forecast. it's 40s and you can see only 41 on sunday. keeping it chilly. so find those jackets and don't go anywhere. dave feldman is up next. 

good evening. i'm dave feldman. there's afeel good story going on at the hilltop at georgetown, the women's hoop team who advanced to the sweet 16. the hoyas are 24-10. they're a five seed and tuesday they took care of maryland convincingly. now it gets tougher. the hoyas have never made it to the elite eight and they're one win away, but one thing about this georgetown team, they're definitely having fun. >> oh, my god, like so, so much fun. this is the type of stuff that you watch on tv when you're younger and you're just like oh, my god, i want to be there when i get older and actually being the person that little girls are looking up to and being in the sweet 16 and doing all these huge things is so exciting.

it's great. >> reporter: seems like everyone is not intimidated by uconn at all. >> if you go into the game knowing you're going to lose, then you probably are going to lose, but we don't have that mentality. beer a different team. we -- we're a different team. we want to win. cap center marcus johansson took a puck to the face during the latter part of today's practice at kettler. the caps left for ottawa where they'll play the senators and johanson is expected to be in the lineup. eight games remain in the season and the biggest question for washington is who will become the goalie? michal neuvirth has played the last three games and won two. he'll start tomorrow night. his 24 wins this season are a caps rookie record. his counterpart semyon varlamov has been out since february 26th with a sprained right knee but he is expected to start saturday. who do you go with in the postseason? >> in the end i won't make the decision. they'll make the decision. so i mean that's by their play.

i think they're both very good young goalies and either one that we put in succeeds or has done well. so i'm not really worried as much as everybody else in the world is. the nats pitcher craig tap monday and -- shammon and jayson werth in his 42nd at bat of the spring drives one over the wall in left field for his first home run. that's a good play. now home plate umpire joe west debuting the umpire cam. here's the view as adam laroche strikes out and his bat winds up in right field. laroche would later reclaim the bat. nats beat the tigers 5-2. opening day is a week away. d.c. united opened the new season last saturday. charlie davies entered in the 51st minute and had an mls debut to remember, scored twice to help d.c. united defeat the

columbus crew 3-1, a fairytale story for davies who suffered life threatening injuries in a car accident just 18 months ago. >> it was like crossing the finish line. it was like a 100-mile race, you know, like a marathon of the world. i mean it really felt so good, but again it's like bittersweet because okay, you set out to do what you accomplished and wanted to, but now it's a whole other race. first round of the arnold palmer invitation, tiger woods winless in 18 months not off to a great spot, although he did sink this birdie putt on 18. tiger with a 1-over 73 and is seven off the lead. phil mickelson favored better, hefty on 9 for 40 feet -- lefty on 9 from 40 feet away for a birdie. it lands on the green and slams into the cup for one of the six birdies, a 6-under 66 and he is

your first hound leader. uconn defeats san diego state and florida over byu in the ncaa. brian is back right after this. 

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